Oil-burner



C. C. LILLIBRIDGE..

olL BURNER'. APPLICATION FILED MAY 20, I920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CURTIS C. LILLIBRIDGE, 0F HUTCHINSON, KANSAS.

OIL-BURNER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 20, 1921.

Application filed May'20, 1920. Serial No. 382,964.

Ta all whom't may concern.'

Be it known that I, CURTIS C. LILLI- BRIDGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hutchinson, in the county of Reno and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Burners; and I do declare the following to be aL -ers 'and more particularly to those which may be readily installed in connection with stoves and furnaces, without making any serious changes in the construction thereof.' The invention relates more particularly to devices of this character in which the burner is located beneath the delivery end of an air supply neck, and one object is to provide a novel form of supporting bracket for the burner provided with means for receiving any overflow from such burner.

Other objects are to provide the supporting bracket with means for properly center-4 ing the burner beneath .the air supply neck and to provide said burner with neck engaging means for always positioning its overflow spout in proper relation with the overiow an carried by the bracket.

A still urther object is to provide an auX- iliary air heater which serves as a support both for the air inlet neck and the burner supporting'bracken With the foregoing and minor objects in view, the invention resides in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, the descriptive v matter being supplemented by the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a top plan view partly in horizontal section.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the plane of lline 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse Section on the line 3-.3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a horizontal Section as indicated by line 4--4 of Fig. 2, with the burner removed from its supporting bracket.

In the drawings above brieydescribed, the numeral 1 designates. aplate adapted to be substituted for the usual coaling door of a stove or furnace, although it willv be under.

stood that the parts hereinafter described might be mounted otherwise than on said yair-pre-heating casing -3 having an outlet opening 4 and a number of air inlets 5 controlled" y a damper 6. A substantially conical air inlet neck 7 extends horizontally from the casing 3 and has its larger end secured by bolts or other preferred fasteners 8, to said casing, said bolts preferably passing` through lateral ears 9 w-ith which the neck 7 is provided. The smaller end of the neck 7 turnsdownwardly as indicated at 10 and a burner 11 is positioned under said end. The fuel may well be supplied to this burner through a tube 12 passing through the plate 1 and extending through the neck 7.

The burner 11 may vary in construction but'I prefer to employ the details shown. An outer pan 13 is provided having a solid bottom 14 and an upwardly flared side wall 15, and'loosely received within said pan 13, is a similar an 16 preferably having an annular rib 1 disposed directly beneath the wall of the neck end 10. The rib 17 tra s a quantity of oil to be used in starting t e burner. Any overfiow from the pan 16 will be caught in the pan 15 and thus the oil will burn not 'only in the pan 16, but between this pan and the wall 15, producing an intense heat. Any overflow from pan 15 takes place through a spout 18 with which said pan is equipped, such overflow being discharged into a relatively small pan 19 carried by a burner supporting bracket 20.

The bracket 20 is provided with a horizontal `,portion 21 upon which the burner 11 rests, and with an annular rib 22 to properly position said burner, and to insure that the overow spout 18 shall be properly disposed over the pan 19, the edge of the wall 15 is provided with a pair of upstanding lugs 23 which straddle the lower portion of the neck 7 as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

The burner engaging parts 21 and 22 of the bracket 20 are preferably of the annular form shown, although should the burner be of other shape,-these parts will be correspondingly changed. Between the portions 21 and 22 and the pre-heating casing 3, the bracket 20 includes a horizontal plate-like portion 24 which forms the bottom of the pan 19, and a pair of horizontal arms 25 extend oppositely from said pan, these arms being secured by boltsor the like 26 to the of the bracket 20 arefpreferably cast in a single piece as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 4.

For carrying off the overflow from the pan 19, a suitable pipe 27 may be provided and although this pipe by preference extends y through the casing 3 and the plate 1, it might be otherwise located, lif desired.

By employing the construction shown and descliibed, the device may be inexpensively manufactured and easily installed, yet will be highly eflicient and in every way desirable. The oil burning at the burner 11 heats the air inlet neck 7 and all other adjacent parts so that the incoming air and fuel are well heated to produce best results, the air being initially heated within the casing 3. Any overflow from pan 16 is caught within pan 13 and if the latter overflows the fuel is caught by the pan 19 and discharged through the pipe 27 I claim:

l. A device of the class described comprising a horizontal bracket, asubstantially horizontal air supply neck fixed at one end and extending over said bracket in close proximity thereto, the other end of said neck being 'downwardly turned, said bracket having an overflowpan under the fixed end of said neck, and a burner resting on said bracket under saiddownwardly turned end of said neck, said burner having an overfiow spout adapted to extend over the edge of said overflow pan, said burner being additionally provided with spaced lugs adapted to straddle said neck to properly position said spout.

2. A device of the class described comprising a horizontally elongated overflow pan, a pair of attaching arms yintegral with and extending oppositely from the ends of said pan flush with one side of said pan, a horizontal plate-like portion integral with and extending laterally from the other side of said pan flush with the pan bottom, and a horizontal burner supporting ring integral at its periphery with said plate-like portion,

axially alined lwith the downturned end of said neck and formed integrally with said plate-like portion, and a burner resting on said ring and having an overflow s out extending over the edge of said over ow pan and located in close proximity to saidl air supply neck, said burner being additionally provided with a pair of horizontally spaced upstanding lugs formed integrally with its upper edge and straddling said neck to properly position said spout with respect to said pan.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set m hand. v

y CURTIS C. LILLIBRIDGE. 

